On 2023-01-03 22:11, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
BTW, crying over those prices sounds like 21st century first-world problems, considering the princely ransoms we paid for wee fractions of that much storage back in the day, or being in awe of the first sysadmin on Usenet who was running a Terabyte Array in their datacentre.
Back in 1976, I paid about $200 for 4 KB of memory for my IMSAI 8080. In the 80s, I paid $500 for a 30 MB drive and controller for my XT clone. Back in those days, when I was a computer technician, I worked on core memory boards that cost a heck of a lot more than that for 8 or 16 KB. BTW, I still have a 4 Kb core memory plane: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5LapMwk8iPrNkFZUXA4cmd5dTg/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-UaImmIxbC-73mW1SoJYNFA However, this is not the memory I worked on. I salvaged it from an older system that was being scrapped. 32 of these were stacked to make a 16 KB memory module and the computer had 4 modules the size of a desktop PC case.